Episode 235

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 235

In this episode:

  • 30th anniversary of the Macintosh computer,
  • Esteban’s MacBook Pro graphics card failed,
  • Shia LaBeouf’s plagarism and fake retirement,
  • Justin Bieber’s fake retirement and drunk drag racing,
  • Michael Bay storms off Samsung’s stage at CES,
  • TV companies going back to curved screens?,
  • Rob finally gets a copy of Video Invaders by Steve Bloom,
  • upcoming film The Lego Movie (2014),
  • comparing the original RoboCop (1987) to the new version (2014),
  • comparing Monument Men (2014) to Kelly’s Heroes (1970),
  • Apple vs. Samsung and appealing court decisions,
  • Microsoft paying for positive XBox One reviews on YouTube,
  • a Rob-view of Blindsided a.k.a. Penthouse North (2013) starring Michelle Monaghan and Michael Keaton,
  • a good article about the history of the Nintendo GameCube,
  • Steven Seagal running for governor of Arizona?,
  • confusing Elisha Cuthbert with Eliza Dushku,
  • NSA spying,
  • Duck Dynasty phonies,
  • Rob’s box of sound effects,
  • celebrity deaths (James Avery, Danny Wells, Phil Everly, Bob Grant),
  • the pointlessness of 4K Ultra HDTVs,
  • Christmas car commercials (who really buys his wife a car for Christmas?),
  • who has more guns- people or the military?,
  • video game emulators vs. collecting/hoarding,
  • modern modifications to classic game systems,
  • and different classes of SD cards.

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Episode 223

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 223

In this episode:

  • the death of the Big Man, the Kid from Brooklyn, Mike Caracciolo,
  • Big Man interviewed by the IBEW (video),
  • the 1982 book Video Invaders! by Stephen Bloom,
  • looking at old high school yearbook scans at the Belleville Public Library in NJ,
  • descreening when using a scanner,
  • Harrison Ford to appear in The Expendables 3 (2014),
  • Bruce Willis fired by Sylvester Stallone,
  • short review of 42 (2013), starring Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman,
  • review of Taken 2 (2012), starring Liam Neeson,
  • a Rob-view of It’s a Disaster (2012), starring David Cross and Erinn Hayes,
  • another Rob-view of Nature Calls (2012), starring Patton Oswalt and Johnny Knoxville,
  • review of View From the Top (2003), starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Christina Applegate,
  • Bankrupt by Beanies (2013) documentary,
  • and Princess Rescue– a new homebrew Super Mario Bros. clone for the Atari 2600.

Rob’s infamous appearance in the 1993-94 High School Yearbook!

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